energy

Scientists Have Invented A Way To Create Unlimited Renewable Energy Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an ‘unlimited source of renewable energy’. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reached this ‘milestone’ by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. They did this Read more…

The Way We Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever Superior batteries are on the way, and they could disrupt power markets within the next decade—Sooner Than You Think. by Tom Randall Batteries are everywhere these days: in our iPhones, toothbrushes, vacuum cleaners, and electric cars. But batteries—really big batteries—are Read more…

Trump Advances Keystone and Dakota Pipelines, Fulfilling Pledge Dakota Access was stalled by Obama administration in September President Donald Trump took steps to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, marking the start of an era with fewer constraints on the oil industry to the chagrin of Read more…

China Is Going to Build a Solar Plant in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone A pair of Chinese companies are planning to build a solar plant in one of the scariest places in the world—the exclusion zone around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Radiation from the 1986 meltdown is spread unevenly throughout Read more…

How Fracking Can Cause Earthquakes It’s generally believed that hydraulic fracturing is behind the recent spate of earthquakes in regions not usually associated with seismic activity, but the underlying processes are still poorly understood. New research from Canada strengthens the link between the two, showing how the controversial practice can Read more…

MIT’s Fusion Reactor Broke a World Record Right Before the Feds Shut It Off MIT’s fusion program has fallen on hard times, but that hasn’t stopped it from smashing world records and keeping the dream of limitless, carbon-free energy alive. At an International Atomic Energy Agency summit in Japan Read more…

Colorado researchers turn beer waste into battery electrodes Recharge the Rockies. In the beer-friendly state of Colorado, researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder have turned brewery runoff into something with a different sort of buzz: low-cost lithium-ion battery electrodes. According to the authors of a new research paper published in Read more…

A totally new energy source in slow moving rivers Alternative energy sources are coming up water. University of Michigan researchers spent years creating a water-harnessing river turbine to create electricity, called the VIVACE. It’s the first time electricity appears to be effectively generated in slower rivers rather than oceans, but that’s Read more…

Genetically Modified Bacteria Conduct Electricity, Ushering in New Era of Green Electronics Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have genetically modified common soil bacteria to produce nanowires capable of conducting electricity at a level that surprised even the scientists themselves. After years of skepticism that this was even theoretically possible, Read more…

Elon Musk is working on a roof made of solar panels Elon Musk’s fondness for ambitious, out-of-left-field ideas isn’t restricted to electric cars or rockets. During SolarCity’s latest earnings call, the entrepreneur revealed that his energy-focused company is developing a “solar roof” — not a roof with solar panels on Read more…

A new proposal from the Ukrainian government hopes to turn part of the wasteland around the world’s largest nuclear disaster into a 60 square km solar and renewable energy park. As the Guardian reports today, the Ukraine is currently seeking funding to transform unused — and dangerously radioactive — land Read more…

North America Is Set to Announce Its Most Ambitious Clean Energy Target Yet The United States, Canada, and Mexico are poised to announce an ambitious new energy pledge that would see 50 percent of North American electricity drawn from clean sources by 2025. That pledge, which encompasses renewables like wind Read more…